WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board's Resident Inspector in Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following weekly report: MEMORANDUM FOR: Christopher J. Roscetti, Technical Director FROM: A. Boussouf and D. Gutowski, Resident Inspectors SUBJECT: Los Alamos Activity Report for Week Ending October 14, 2022 N3B-Electrical Safety: On Thursday, N3B management stopped all work in their facilities with the exception of minimal safety and environmental compliance   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 (TNSawa) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: Long-time computational physicist James Gubernatis at Los Alamos National Laboratory has been named the winner of the American Physical Society's John Wheatley award. The award, given biannually to one recipient, recognizes physicists who have contributed to the international development of physics. "Jim made invaluable contributions to computational physics during his Labo  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory issued the following web feature: As malicious actors become more adept in their attempts to circumvent international nuclear nonproliferation safeguards, the United States government has invested in research to better detect bad actors' malign activities. To address threats to nonproliferation, agencies like the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) employ careful monitoring techniques to m  more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, Nov. 3 -- NASA's Space Telescope Science Institute issued the following news release: * * * Roman is set to help researchers detect more kilonovae, helping us learn significantly more about these "all-star" smashups. How do you pinpoint titanic collisions that occur millions or billions of light-years away? First, by surveying large areas of the sky. Second, by teaming up with observatories around the world! Scientists have been searching for kilonovae, when two neutron s  more

LIVERMORE, California, Oct. 31 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news release on Oct. 31, 2022: Two Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory-led teams received SciVis Test of Time awards at the 2022 IEEE VIS conference on Oct. 18, for papers that have achieved lasting relevancy in the field of scientific visualization. Published in 2008, an LLNL-led paper that -- for the first time -- allowed Digital Morse Theory to be applied  more